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Northrop Awarded In-Service Support Contract for British Submarine Management Systems

Northrop Grumman has secured a contract with the U.K.’s submarine delivery agency to support the platform management systems of the country’s Astute-class submarines, whose prime contractor is BAE Systems. The company will perform in-service support for the systems, which it supplied to BAE, to maximize the country’s availability of the seven-vessel Astute class, Northrop said […] More

by Nichols Martin March 14, 2022, 8:44 am
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L3Harris to Provide Engineering Support for Navy’s Combat Ships Under IDIQ Contract

L3Harris Technologies has received a potential five-year, $19.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services for steering, machinery and navigation control systems of the service’s combat ships. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division is the contracting activity and will obligate $281,799 in fiscal year 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds […] More

by Jane Edwards March 14, 2022, 5:49 am
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IARPA Selects Awardees of Biometric Tech Research Contracts

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has named the participants of a new program that seeks to study concepts that would enable the identification of individuals from long distances and through atmospheric distortions. The Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range program is aimed at providing defense and intelligence agencies with whole-body biometric technologies […] More

by Angeline Leishman March 14, 2022, 5:47 am
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Deltek’s Ashley Sanderson on 3 Contract Opportunities for Women-Owned Small Businesses

Ashley Sanderson, senior manager for research at Deltek, said there are top three contract opportunities for women-owned small businesses in the next 18 months and one of those is a potential $1 billion contract to provide information technology services for the Defense Information Systems Agency, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Deltek said a solicitation for […] More

by Jane Edwards March 11, 2022, 11:52 am
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DDN, Aspen to Provide Data Processing Services for Pacific Northwest National Lab’s Coastal Regions Modeling Project

Data companies DataDirect Networks and Aspen Systems have teamed up to help the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory predict and model the behavior of coastal systems as part of an initiative. DDN will combine its expertise in artificial intelligence and cloud data management with Aspen’s high-power computing knowledge for the PNNL Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions […] More

by Angeline Leishman March 11, 2022, 11:48 am
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Northrop to Produce Link-16 Hardware for USMC Helicopters Under $65M Navy Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $65 million contract to commence the full-rate production of Link-16 for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of combat helicopters. The company said Wednesday it will integrate the military tactical data link network into the AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft to enable fleet crews to share data and communications […] More

by Naomi Cooper March 10, 2022, 11:52 am
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Sigma Defense Company Books Navy Task Order for Cloud Migration Support

A Sigma Defense company has received a U.S. Navy task order to migrate the Naval Air Systems Command’s integrated surveillance software to a DevSecOps cloud environment. Solute will be responsible for facilitating NAVAIR’s Minotaur Family of Services DevSecOps under the Digital Integration Support Cell award, Sigma Defense said Wednesday. The Black Pearl Party Barge common […] More

by Angeline Leishman March 10, 2022, 11:50 am
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Air Force Awards UAV Development Contract to Blue Force Technologies

Blue Force Technologies will build an unmanned aerial vehicle for use in adversary air training missions under a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The SBIR contract awarded under the Bandit program calls for the North Carolina-based aerospace and defense company to move the vehicle design to the critical […] More

by Jane Edwards March 10, 2022, 11:48 am
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Concepts Communications, DOL Partner on PWD Employment Efforts; Karen Herson Quoted

Concepts Communications has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement to continue helping the Department of Labor manage outreach efforts in support of people with disabilities. The company said Wednesday it will assist DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy in executing both existing and future outreach initiatives. The BPA continues Concepts Communications’ work under four initiatives, […] More

by Nichols Martin March 9, 2022, 11:59 am
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Geological Survey Taps Dewberry to Provide Hydrography Data on Alaska, South Carolina

Dewberry has received task orders from the U.S. Geological Survey to map elevation-derived hydrography in Alaska and South Carolina in support of an agency initiative. The firm said Tuesday it will deliver EDH data covering 20,000 square miles in Alaska and almost 7,000 square miles in South Carolina to USGS to help it provide better-integrated […] More

by Nichols Martin March 9, 2022, 11:57 am
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Leidos Clinches Spot on $545M NIAID Contract to Conduct Biomedical R&D; Liz Porter Quoted

Leidos has won a prime position on a potential seven-year, $545 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to offer biomedical, preclinical and development research services. The contractor will perform tasks such as chemistry manufacturing and control, analytics, bioinformatics and computational biology under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Reston, Virginia-based company said Wednesday. […] More

by Charles Lyons-Burt March 9, 2022, 11:49 am
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NetCentrics Wins Air National Guard Contract for Wraith Cyber Operations Platform

NetCentrics has secured a new contract with the Air National Guard to deploy software-as-a-service meant to support offensive and defensive cyber operations across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. The Wraith SaaS product is designed to provide ANG with capabilities for cryptographic tunneling, instant software deployments and simultaneous multi-squadron operations to meet the guard’s Cyber Cloud […] More

by Angeline Leishman March 8, 2022, 12:39 pm